February 2025

Substance Abuse: Smoking

By |2025-02-12T09:22:39+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Science Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

A man smoking and selling Tobacco at an Auction floor. Image credit voanews.com A man smoking and selling Tobacco at an Auction floor. Image credit voanews.com ZIMSEC O Level Combined Science Notes: Substance Abuse: Smoking

  • In most countries including smoking is legal
  • It is also socially accepted
  • Cigarette smoke(tobacco smoke) contains […]
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Contraception: The pill

By |2025-02-12T09:39:17+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Science Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Image credit citifmonline.com Image credit citifmonline.com ZIMSEC O Level Combined Science Notes:Contraception: The pill

  • Are also known as birth control pills (BCPs) or
  • Oral Contraceptive Pills (OCPs)

How it works

  • They contain the two female hormones: oestrogen and progesterone
  • They prevent the release of ova/female sex cells
  • They cause growth of an […]
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Centralised Sewage Treatment Works

By |2025-02-12T09:06:37+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Science Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Sewage treatment works at Morton Jaffray,Harare. Image credit hararenews.co.zw Sewage treatment works at Morton Jaffray,Harare. Image credit hararenews.co.zw ZIMSEC O Level Combined Science Notes: Centralised Sewage Treatment Works

  • Are used to collect and treat sewage waste from large industrial and residential areas
  • They treat large quantities of human waste
  • The raw […]
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Carbon Dioxide and Photosynthesis

By |2025-02-12T09:37:48+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Science Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

ZIMSEC O Level Combined Science: Carbon Dioxide and Photosynthesis

Aim: To test whether carbon dioxide is necessary for photosynthesis.

Materials: Potted green plants, potassium hydroxide solution (soda lime), two polythene bags/two bell jars, string, apparatus and reagents for the start test.

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Amylase enzyme experiment

By |2025-02-12T09:21:08+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Science Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

Image credit schule-bw.de Image credit schule-bw.de ZIMSEC O Level Combined Science Notes: Amylase enzyme experiment

Experiment

Materilas: 1% amylase enzyme/saliva, 2% startch solution, visking tubing, reagents to test for starch and sugar, beakers.

Method A: Visking Tubing.

  • NB. The Visking Tubing is used to function/work as a small small intestine.
  • Prepare two model intestines by […]
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Reproduction in plants: Flowers and Pollination

By |2025-02-12T09:24:25+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Science Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

The basic structure of a flower The basic structure of a flower: showing the reproductive organs ZIMSEC O Level Combined Science Notes: Reproduction in plants: Flowers and Pollination

  • Most plants have female and male sex cells which join at fertilization to produce seeds
  • This is known as sexual reproduction
  • Flowers are the reproductive organs […]
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Strength to Mass ratio

By |2025-02-12T09:13:19+02:00February 12th, 2025|Notes, O Level Science Notes, Ordinary Level Notes|

The cross section of beams The cross section of beams ZIMSEC O Level Combined Science Notes: Strength to Mass ratio

  • Engineers do away with materials that are under little stress so as to be able to build efficient structures in terms of weight and cost
  • The material that lies close to the neutral […]
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